One of our community members by the name of Quinn Williams asked me, "Hey Daniel...
is it possible to walk through text in Filmora9?"
This one goes out to you, Quinn.
Stick around, I'll show you how.
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This video was sponsored by the good people at Filmora.
The trick to pulling off this effect is
understanding the mask features in Filmora9. You might remember a couple of
weeks ago I use these features to turn myself into a piece of fruit today's
effect isn't much different the only thing you have to know going in is that
Filmora doesn't allow you to add masking tracks directly into a titles or text
track so you'll need to create whatever text you want to use and bounce that
footage now bouncing is a term that I use for exporting whatever's in your
timeline at a very high resolution and bitrate and then bringing that exported
footage back into filmora to use again that footage will always end up with a
color in the background which by default is black but I'm gonna throw green in
the background behind this text I've added a little dissolve to it and I
don't want any shades of grey to inadvertently be removed later on now
your text rack has been converted to a video track and masks can be applied lay
your text track in a track above your main footage use the chroma key feature
in the upper left to remove the background and now your text track will
allow the main track below it to show through in the upper left under the
effects tab choose utilities and you'll find your mask feature we're going to
stack multiple masks onto this track because one won't be enough for what I'm
trying to accomplish I'll bring down three and see where that gets me I can
always add more masks later as I've shown you in other videos you can choose
many different mask shapes as well as control the height width size and
placement of that mask you can also control the edge feathering and the
inversion of it inversion just controls whether the track below it will show
through the inside of the shape we've created or the outside of that shape
for our purposes today we want to invert our masks which will allow us to erase
the text wherever we place the mask now the next steps many of you have seen me
do a lot of times wherever I think my mask needs to begin I simply split my
footage in the timeline at that point and begin activating the masks by
clicking on that section in my timeline going up to the video tab in the upper
left and at the very bottom I'll find each of those mask controls
under the video effects menu I can see all three masks I've added right here
but I'll only activate the top one for now and start placing it where I want
for this frame in the video sequence this is actually a pretty tricky piece
of footage because it's filmed so low that there isn't just one body part
moving through the text it's two separate legs and feet walking through
at different times so I've definitely given myself a challenge here today the
right leg and foot goes through first so let's bring the mask over and modify the
shape and size of it to see if I can erase or mask out that area of text that
would be hidden by this person walking in front of it there are no hard and
fast rules here I'm just trying to use whatever shapes sizes and edge
feathering seemed to do a decent job of erasing the text I don't want to see
once I have that frame looking pretty decent I move the playhead forward one
frame in my timeline make sure you have your timeline stretched all the way out
so that when you move forward you're only moving forward a single frame at a
time move one frame forward slice your text
track to separate that frame and now you can manually move the mask to make any
minor adjustments needed as this person begins to walk forward I'll keep
adjusting this mask moving forward one frame at a time in my timeline and
slicing the footage to separate each frame which will allow me to change the
mask in the next frame without moving the mask in the previous frame as the
second foot comes in to screen I'll need to activate the other masks as well this
will allow me to drop multiple smaller asks within my track in a race a lot of
different areas at once use your judgment here with whatever footage
you've decided to create just keep slicing your footage and moving your
masks to get something which seems to work I'm going to keep this one fairly
simple and just use these three masks now there will come a point where you
want the body to move through the text so here's where you'll have to use your
imagination a bit just like the way a body moves through water the text should
separate completely as the body moves through it and close back up slowly
behind it as it passes through so I'll just start watching the motion of these
legs and feet and start shrinking the width of the masks as they move through
to create the illusion of that text closing back up behind the legs and feet
as they get to the other side of this text again all of this is completely
arbitrary depending on where you decide that person should be passing through
this text try to look at where you think the text seems to be positioned as
compared to the main footage and use that as a reference point in your mind
to me the text looks like it's lined up with this spot on the ground so when
this person reaches that point that's where I'll begin the passing through
masking technique feel free to run your footage while you're working so that you
can go back and make any minor adjustments where things might be
looking a little janky. Once your person is passed all the way through you can
turn off the masks for the rest of the footage and you should end up with
something that looks like this if you want to learn more Filmora tips tricks
and techniques be sure to click on the video on screen now
or the ones I'll link down below
Peace!